Sexual Cannibalism Is a Case of 'He Said, She Said' - Science

Research published in Animal Behaviour, which looked at potential projection of stereotypical sex roles onto animals by researchers and how this may be hampering the progress of research, was covered by the Science website this week.
Males sacrifice themselves for the sake of their offspring, whereas females are aggressive attackers. Biologists typically resort to biased language like this to describe sexual cannibalism, a new study concludes. Such stereotypes, the paper's authors argue, could leave scientists in the dark about certain aspects of animal reproduction.